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The Ultimate Packing Guide For Your Holiday In Malta

Malta is the perfect place to holiday. It's warm for most of the year, it's easy to get around, people are friendly, it's relatively inexpensive – it's a tourist's haven. But, year after year – without fail – people eager to travel to our beloved islands make the same rookie packing mistakes.

So here's a few tips on how to get it right the first time. Grab a pen – these things all need to be in your suitcase.

1. Closed shoes

Even though we do have over 300 days of sunshine in Malta, winter still happens. Also, you might want to go for a countryside walk in the hotter months (brave), and our terrain is not rollings fields of grass – it's rugged limestone and shrubbery. Bring closed shoes.

2. Cash

Maltese currency is the euro, and you should always carry a small amount of it with you as you traipse around the islands. Most medium to big establishments will take card, but local fruit and veg vans peppered around the island won't – and it would be a sin to miss out on their delicious stock.

8. Sun screen

9. Insect repellent

Yes, we know you're not going on an African safari. But don't be too quick to write us off, you'll thank us when you're sleeping sound in your Gozo farmhouse whilst your best friend is contemplating suicide because of the incessant buzzing sound.

12. Layers

You think you're spending a low-key day out in capital and so you go for winter-chic. Then you discover that that time you trained for Kilimanjaro was easier than the two hours of exploration before lunch. Malta's terrain is hilly – you'll be breaking a sweat while sight-seeing no matter what season.